An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville ...Columbia University, 1912 - 274 páginas |
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An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville, Temas120-121 Ernest Brehaut Vista completa - 1912 |
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Página 135 - Musica est disciplina quae rerum sibi congruentium, id est sonorum differentias et convenientias perscrutatur » (Ps. 97). Ou encore : comme le dit Boèce : « Musica est scientia quae de numeris loquitur qui ad aliquid sunt, his qui inveniuntur in sonis
Página 69 - Atque secundum officium operis sui variis nuncupatur nominibus ; anima est, dum vivificat ; dum contemplatur, spiritus est ; dum sentit, sensus est ; dum sapit , animus est ; dum intelligit , mens est ; dum discernit , ratio est ; dum consentit. voluntas est; dum recordatur, memoria est.
Página 55 - ... Isidore's world-philosophy was his view of the constitution of matter. This is closely bound up with his conception of the form of the universe, and it is also the most important of his ideas in the field of natural science. He believed in the existence of the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water,3 and that they were the visible manifestations of one underlying matter.4 They were not mutually exclusive but " all elements existed in all ", and it was possible for one element to be transmuted...
Página 84 - A report kas reached us which we cannot mention without a blush, that thou expoundest grammar to certain friends ; whereat we are so offended and filled with scorn that our former opinion of thee is turned to mourning and sorrow. The same mouth singeth not the praises of Jove and the praises of Christ*.
Página 113 - Disciplines," which has been lost, there were no 1 HW Blunt, Art. " Logic," in Encycl. Brit., i ith ed. See also Rashdall, Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1895), vol. i, p. 36. writings on logic in the Latin down to the fourth century. Instruction in the subject was apparently given in Greek and to but few pupils. In the fourth century, however, Greek was going out of use, and it became necessary, if logic was to be saved in the schools, to have Latin text books.1 The need was...
Página 265 - Europa veto a septentrione usque ad occidentem, atque inde Africa ab occidente usque ad meridiem. Unde videntur orbem dimidium duae tenere, Europa et Africa, alium veto dimidium sola Asia. Sed ideo illae duae partes factae sunt, quia inter utramque ab Oceano ingreditur, quidquid aquarum terras interluit; et hoc mare magnum nobis facit.
Página 24 - Migne, PL 82, col. 68. * This passage is found in Cicero, Academica Posteriora I, 3, and is addressed to Varro. brought us home, as it were, so that we could at last recognize who and where we were. You have discussed the antiquity of our fatherland, the orderly arrangement of chronology, the laws of sacrifices and of priests, the discipline of the home and the state, the situation of regions and places, the names, kinds, functions and causes of all things human and divine. From this characterization,...
Página 179 - Gospel, count up as an hour each, the first age from Adam to Noah; the second, from Noah to Abraham; the third, from Abraham to David; the fourth, from David to the...
Página 70 - ... religious writings were based upon the Scriptures, upon the writings of the Church Fathers, and upon the decisions of Councils. In one of his principal theological tracts, Sententiae, he describes his own attitude toward religious belief quite clearly. He says : We are not permitted to form any belief of our own will, or to choose a belief that someone else has accepted of his own. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves choose anything of what they should believe, but they...
Página 127 - Take number from all things and all things perish. Take calculation from the world and all is enveloped in dark ignorance, nor can he who does not know the way to reckon be distinguished from the rest of the animals.